01868nas a2200229 4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003260000800044653003300052653001100085653002200096653002100118653002500139100002200164245010500186856015400291300001200445490000700457520115400464022002001618 2021 d csep10aIntangible cultural heritage10aUNESCO10acommercialization10aheritage regimes10anormative conundrums1 aChiara Bortolotto00aCommercialization without over-commercialization: normative conundrums across heritage rationalities uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097894083&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2020.1858441&partnerID=40&md5=af1fda99059713c010c657dcaf90daec a857-8680 v273 aIn aligning its priorities around the Sustainable Development Goals, UNESCO officially acknowledges the need to reconcile the market and heritage. Yet inscriptions of commercial practices on the Intangible Cultural Heritage lists are qualified as ‘traumatic’ by actors that design normative principles for ‘good’ heritage governance. Based on ethnographic observations of the meetings of the governing bodies of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, I analyse the controversies generated by the ‘risks of over-commercialization’, shedding light on the disputed entanglements between ICH and the market. In exploring the notion of ‘commercialization without over-commercialization’ meant to resolve the tension between heritage and the market, I highlight how ‘over-commercialization’ refers to notions of ‘misappropriation’ and ‘decontextualization’ and the ways it, therefore, intersects with the logics of Intellectual Property. This allows to elucidate a constitutive ambiguity in the implementation of the Convention, torn between the rationalities of heritage and property regimes. a13527258 (ISSN)